Setting up Hotmail and netscape accounts

Chris_King

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Apr 4, 2005, 2:47:02 AM4/4/05

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I have been fooling around with outlook 2002 for a day, and I finally got the
program to sync with my PDA through Active sync, however I can no longer read
and send mail through hotmail or Netscape. I have read through several
threads and cannot seeem to find anyone else with this problem... (maybe I am
l=not looking enough), but I keep getting an error message that says "a
connection to the sever could not be established (MSN hotmail website) is now
in offline mode. and It will not connect. i have tried tinkering with
firewall settings on and off and such however it still will not allow either
accounts to access the net. please help - Chris King

Vanguard

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Apr 4, 2005, 2:59:41 AM4/4/05

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Just a hunch. Under the File menu, are you in Offline mode?

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Chris_King

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Apr 4, 2005, 3:41:03 AM4/4/05

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> Just a hunch. Under the File menu, are you in Offline mode?

Unfortunately no, it is not that simple, thank you for the advice, I checked
anyways.

Gordon

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Apr 4, 2005, 4:22:26 AM4/4/05

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Netscape mail will not work natively with Outlook. Period. You *can* get
third-party applications that will allow you to read Web-based mail in
Outlook. Whether any of these will work with Netscape I don't know....

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Chris_King

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Apr 4, 2005, 4:45:04 AM4/4/05

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"Gordon" wrote:

> Netscape mail will not work natively with Outlook. Period. You *can* get
> third-party applications that will allow you to read Web-based mail in
> Outlook. Whether any of these will work with Netscape I don't know....

I am running IE as a web rowser if that is what you are talking about
however I have an @netscape.net account, but my main concern is finding how
to get my hotmail account to wor, sinc it is my primary e-mail address, and I
was hoping once it was set up in Outlook 2002, it would sync the settings
with my PDA's version of outlook

Gordon

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Apr 4, 2005, 4:52:56 AM4/4/05

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Is this a new Hotmail account, or have you had it for years? And yes,
@netscape.net mail will NOT work natively with Outlook.

Diane Poremsky [MVP]

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Apr 4, 2005, 10:27:02 AM4/4/05

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Assuming it's a hotmail account that used to work in Outlook, it's not going
to sync with the PDA because it's not the default store. You'd need the MOOL
service to sync. http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/mool.htm

If netscape.net supports imap or pop, you can use it in outlook (or any
other mail client), if it's web only, you cannot unless a utility supports
it. Such utilities are listed near the end of this page:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/services/online.htm

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